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Comment by overfeed

9 hours ago

> AI is now capable of constructions so complex that no human or human team can unpack

Can you give an example of this?

The first major computer-assisted proof, of the four-color map theorem in 1976, was an example of this. It created a lot of controversy at the time. It used proof by exhaustion, i.e. essentially analyzing every possible relevant case, something that no human could do without the assistance of, at the time, a supercomputer.